Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Industrial platform – Formed from folded semirigid material
Patent
1992-11-18
1994-02-15
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Industrial platform
Formed from folded semirigid material
108 511, B65D 1900
Patent
active
052857328
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a lightweight pallet base of unitary, one piece construction fabricated of a stiff foldable sheet material such as corrugated cardboard. In one aspect the pallet comprises a central platform having foldable corner and side flaps attached to the central platform. The corner flaps and a portion of the side edge flaps adjacent the corners are folded and interlocked to form corner support members. The central portion of the side edge support members are folded to form side edge supports located midway between the corners of the platform. The support members are of one piece construction with the central platform with the pallet being assembled from a die cut blank. Different embodiments of the unitary pallet use the foldable side edge flaps located adjacent the corner flaps in different ways to reinforce the corner support members. In another aspect a load bearing pallet tray is secured to the unitary pallet base which provides a combination having improved beam strength.
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Anderson Gerald A.
Container Corporation International Ltd.
Dorner Kenneth J.
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